{"product_id":"the-wall","title":"The Wall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA woman's weekend away in the Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn - and becomes a fight for survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, the woman sets off to look for them. But her journey reaches a sinister and inexplicable dead end. She discovers only a transparent wall behind which there seems to be no life. Trapped alone behind the mysterious wall she begins the arduous work of survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is at once a simple account of potatoes and beans, of hoping for a calf, of counting matches, of forgetting the taste of sugar and the use of one's name, and simultaneously a disturbing dissection of the place of human beings in the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the most beautiful and most harrowing books I've ever read, as well as one of the best' Susan Choi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Every joint and sinew of the story is restless with a sense of threat' \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant in its sustainment of dread, in its peeling away of old layers of reality to expose a raw way of seeing and feeling.' Nicole Krauss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 256 pages | Published June 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63956703445341,"sku":"9781784879976","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/the-wall","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}